Welcome To The EDWARD GOODMAN VIRTUAL ARCHIVE

Edward Goodman (1945-2024) was a time-serving solicitor. He was also an anti-censorship activist, a talented artist, and an author. He served for twelve years as a Labour councillor, but his real passion was history.

I knew Edward for thirty years and worked with him for over twenty years, intensely since shortly after the death of the actor David Webb when he asked me to set up The NCROPA Virtual Archive. Six years later he asked me to set up the British Prudery Archive. On March 6, 2024, this was renamed The Ted Goodman Prudery Archive.

In 2013, he started a blog which I maintained for him, and in April 2023 he purchased a domain for a project concerned with numbers and history.

Shortly after his death in what I can only describe as an act of malice, both the website and the blog were deleted. The website was a work in progress and I have the entire thing on my hard disk. I also archived many of the pages created so far. Unfortunately, although I archived the blog regularly, or  thought I had, the Wayback Machine had other ideas, and most of the posts have not survived. I did not retain copies on my hard disk.

Edward’s other projects were the publication of his mother’s memoirs, which we edited together, and five major works of history which have yet to be published.

Edward’s mother was a remarkable woman who lived to the equally remarkable age of 106. Recognising the uniqueness of her story, he encouraged her to dictate it to him in her 90s. As his father also lived to a great age, 90, one would have expected, hoped, he would have lived at least as long. Sadly, cancer had other ideas.

(The funeral service of Marie Goodman can be found here:  https://www.archive.org/details/marie-goodman-funeral-service).

My obituary of Edward Goodman can be found here: https://thedarkman.substack.com/p/ted-goodman-1945-2024

His grave can be found here:                          https://archive.org/details/edward-goodman-virtual-archive

This archive is a work in progress and will be augmented as time permits.

The following have been added so far:

egoodmanc-1.pdf: Letter British Library to Edward Goodman, July 14, 2016.

egoodmanc-2.pdf: Letter Ian Jackson to Goodman, August 17, 2000.

egoodmanc-3.pdf: Memorandum by Goodman re seizures by Customs of obscene materials, 1996.

egoodmanc-4.pdf: Goodman to Canterbury City Council, April 19, 2018.

egoodmanc-5.pdf: Canterbury City Council to Goodman, April 28, 2018.

egoodmanc-6.pdf:  Edward Goodman CV to 2006. This isn’t entirely accurate; see his Substack obituary, which does not include Sandoms, but does include a more accurate (and up to date) timeline.

egoodmanc-7.pdf: Peter Hitchens to Goodman, July 21, 2006.

egoodmanc-8.pdf: Lawyers Secular Society to Goodman, June 17, 2009.

egoodmanc-9.pdf: Goodman to Stop The War, June 8, 2007 (enclosures not included).

egoodmanp-1.jpg: Photograph of Edward, circa 1990.

egoodmanp-2.jpg: Photograph of Edward in Egypt, 1972.

egoodmanp-3.jpg: About Me page from TheGoodmanHistoryBlog

egoodmanp-4.jpg: NCROPA delegation to the Home Office, January 21, 1981.

egoodmanp-5.jpg: Notice of the winding up of NCROPA.

egoodmanp-6.jpg: Letter Tuppy Owens to Goodman, circa 1999.

egoodmanp-7.jpg: Letter Tuppy Owens to Goodman, circa 1999.

egoodmanp-8.jpg: Surrey Mirror (REDHILL, REIGATE & BANSTEAD), December 21, 1995, page 4: Edward gets a mention.

egoodmanp-9.jpg: Letter published in the Surrey Mirror (REDHILL, REIGATE AND BANSTEAD), December 30, 1999, page 6.

egoodmanp-10.jpg: Notice of Edward’s death from the Campaign Against Censorship website’s homepage.

egoodmanp-11.jpg: His entry from a column of potted biographies for election candidates, Tunbridge Wells, published in the KENT Evening Post (MEDWAY TOWNS), March 24, 1992, page 6.  

egoodmanp-12.jpg: Letter published in the Surrey Mirror (REDHILL, REIGATE AND BANSTEAD), April 16, 1998, page 9.

egoodmanp-13.jpg: HORLEY MIRROR Incorporating  Horley Advertiser, October 8, 1992, page 9. Quoted in this article. (This newspaper is a local edition of the Surrey Mirror, one of several).

egoodmanp-14.jpg: HORLEY MIRROR (CHARLWOOD, SMALLFIELD, GATWICK), January 18, 1996, page 3. Mention at the end of the article.

egoodmanp-15.jpg: Legal notice published in the LEATHERHEAD ADVERTISER (COBHAM, BOOKHAM FETCHAM and ASHTEAD ADVERTISER), September 11, 1986, page 31.  

egoodmanp-16.jpg: Caterham Mirror, January 14, 1999, page 7. (Quoted in article; the same report appeared in other editions of the Surrey Mirror).

egoodmanp-17.jpg: Surrey Mirror (REDHILL, REIGATE & BANSTEAD), January 25, 1996, page 1. (Councillor Goodman defends Harriet Harman!)

egoodmanp-18.jpg: Funeral notice from the local bulletin ReMember, on the day of his funeral!

egoodmanp-19.jpg: Funeral programme front page – thanks to Sean Gabb for this.

egoodmanp-20.jpg:  SURREY MIRROR  (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), June 4, 1992, page 2. (Mention in article – the same article was published in the Caterham Mirror Incorporating The Caterham Times, same date, same page).

egoodmanp-21.jpg: HORLEY MIRROR Incorporating Horley Advertiser, February 17, 1994, page 7. (Quoted in article).

egoodmanp-22.jpg: SURREY MIRROR  (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), January 27, 1994, page 8. (Councillor Goodman is disgusted).

egoodmanp-23.jpg: Goodman to the Editor of PLAN re the Jews and the Palestinians, September 6, 1982. (PLAN was the monthly journal of the Progressive League).

egoodmanp-24.jpg: Campaigning for Labour.

egoodmanp-25.jpg: With David Webb. 

egoodmanp-26.jpg: Letter to (Brynmor?) John MP, October 29, 1976.

egoodmanp-27.jpg: Letter Goodman to Alwyn Turner (address redacted), November 13, 2013.

egoodmanp-28.jpg: Letter Goodman to Surrey Trading Standards re entrapment (without enclosure), February 12, 1994.

egoodmanp-29.jpg: Invitation to an event by The Leydig Trust, 2003.

egoodmanp-30.jpg: HORLEY MIRROR Incorporating Horley Advertiser, August 11, 1994. Councillor Goodman quoted in article on page 5.

egoodmanp-31.jpg: SURREY MIRROR (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), June 30, 1994. Councillor Goodman mentioned in an article on page 5.

egoodmanp-32.jpg: SURREY MIRROR (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), July 2, 1992. Councillor Goodman on “the iniquitous council tax” in an article on page 7 (unnumbered).

egoodmanp-33.jpg: SURREY MIRROR (REIGATE & REDHILL EDITION), July 28, 1994, page 3. (Councillor Goodman is quoted).

egoodmand-1.pdf: Local election leaflet, 2004.

egoodmand-2.pdf: Blog posts in order:

Prostitution (2)

Real People Who Became Legends

Flags

Legal Systems

Illogical Frontiers

Partition

Fiction Becomes Reality

Re the above, Prostitution (1) has not survived.  Real People Who Became Legends was recorded as a video with Edward’s narration. It can be found at this link: https://www.archive.org/details/real-people-who-became-legends-final-cut

egoodmand-3.pdf: 

Blog posts in order:

Constitutional Development Of The European Communities

Decentralisation Of Government

The Campidoglio

The first of the above  dates from 1982. I believe it was not previously published.

egoodmand-4.pdf: What should be the nature of the accountability of England’s police?

The above is a paper written for the Tawney Society. I cannot remember if it was ever published or read. Had Ted lived, it would almost certainly have been added to his blog at some point.

egoodmand-5.pdf: Multi-Ethnic States – what appears to be the last of his blog posts I have been able to recover - but see below.

egoodmand-6.pdf: Petition against a bill by the GLC, drafted by Goodman.

egoodmand-7.pdf: Notice of the winding up of NCROPA.

egoodmand-8.pdf: Copy of Edward Goodman’s application to join Stop The War, 2006.

egoodmand-9.pdf: Draft critique of Column Of Phocas by Sean Gabb (verbatim as converted from the original WORD file).

egoodmand-10.pdf: British Homosexuality 1800-2000 - from TheGoodmanHistoryBlog

egoodmand-11.pdf: BACKLASH...by Nigel Meek, February 2006. (Thanks for the comments).

egoodmand-12.pdf: CENSORSHIP: THE CURRENT LEGAL POSITION IN BRITAIN (MARCH 1991), Legal Notes No. 14, March 1991.  

egoodmand-13.pdf: Jordan is Palestine – this paper was published in HTML format on my main website on March 14, 2023 augmented as follows:

“Update March 2023: On July 31, 1988, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan renounced sovereignty over the West Bank thereby reinstating the Jordan River as an international frontier.

The above paper by EAC Goodman was written in 1982 as far as he can recall but was never published. He cannot remember either at this distance who published International Intelligence nor what sort of journal it was, nor indeed if it was a journal.”

egoodmand-14.pdf:  Postcard from Nettie Pollard, apparently posted in an envelope! The obverse has been rotated ninety degrees. (Don’t believe the media smears on this woman).

egoodmand-15.pdf:  Letter from Mary Hayward, November 18, 1985.

egoodmand-16.pdf: Letter Goodman to the ASA re a wine advertisement (without enclosure), November 5, 2015.

 egoodmand-17.pdf: Letter Mary Hayward to CAC Council, circa November 1985 (see egoodmand-15.pdf).

egoodmand-18.pdf: Letter Department for Culture Media & Sport to Goodman re legislation, November 23, 2015.  

egoodmand-19.pdf: Goodman line of descent (males only), verbatim.

egoodmand-20.pdf: Letter Goodman to DPP re extreme pornography, October  27, 2016.

egoodmand-21.pdf: Letter Goodman to Secretary of State for Culture re film censorship, November 5, 2015.

egoodmand-22.pdf: Letter Goodman to Andy Slaughter MP, December 8, 2015.

egoodmand-23.pdf: Letter Goodman to Tom Watson MP re Internet censorship, (enclosure not included), January 19, 2015.

egoodmand-24.pdf: Letter Goodman to ATVOD re censorship, May 28, 2015.

egoodmand-25.pdf: Letter Goodman to Ministerial Support Team re film classification (without enclosure), December 3, 2015.

egoodmand-26.pdf: Letter BBFC to Goodman (with enclosure) re film censorship, July 1, 2015.

egoodmand-27.pdf: Letter Goodman to BBFC re film censorship, August 12, 2015.

egoodmand-28.pdf: Letter BBFC to Goodman re film censorship, July 24, 2015.

egoodmand-29.pdf: Letter Goodman to BBFC re film censorship, July 13, 2015. (See egoodmand-26.pdf).

egoodmand-30.pdf: Candidates speak on key issues published in the Tunbridge Wells Courier, March 27, 1992, page 8.

egoodmand-31.pdf: Reigate’s nuclear bunkers shutdown published in the Caterham Mirror Incorporating The Caterham Times, June 4, 1992, page 11. (This is the second article in the paper on this date).

egoodmans-1.pdf: Speech on obscenity and film censorship, 1979.

egoodmans-2.pdf: Speech on censorship, free speech and pornography, 1986.

Both the above were copied from the NCROPA website.

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